Culture in Quarantine

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All About Bette

Bette Davis, the trailblazing icon and star of films ranging from All About Eve to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Inside Cinema

Write around Italy: Richard E. Grant's favourite Italian reads

From Patricia Highsmith's inspiration for Tom Ripley to Dickens on Vesuvius, the series on great writers begins in Italy

BBC Arts

Blind Ambition

Jamie O’Leary and Jamie MacDonald set out to discover the blind and partially sighted artists making striking artworks

BBC ARTS

Introducing Arts on BBC Sounds

Episode Five: BBC Introducing Arts with Huw Stephens

Featuring I’m Sinking In A Room, So I Log Into My Tomb, Day Zero, To the Crew: Vocal Mix and Unknown Home

BBC Sounds

Episode Four: BBC Introducing Arts with Huw Stephens

Featuring Lonely Legs, I Want To Be Good, Signal to Noise and The Listening Crystal: Wild Tracks Radio

BBC SOUNDS

Episode Three: BBC Introducing Arts with Huw Stephens

Featuring Sorry I’m Like This, The Fabric of Sound, Redraw the Circles and A Shanty For Cornish Youth

BBC SOUNDS

Episode Two: Introducing Arts with Huw Stephens

Featuring Under the Noise, Day 271, Volcanoes in Ice and Rory's Alternative Guide to The Woods

BBC SOUNDS

Manchester International Festival 2021 - Postcards From Now

Breathless Puppets

Rotoscope animation powers this dance film by Akram Khan and Naaman Azhari.

BBC iPlayer

Download and Run Zoom

A digital collaboration between Lucinda Childs and the Ballet National de Marseille

BBC iPlayer

Far Away From Russia

The routine of an elderly person and a carer as an unexpected act of love and resistance

BBC iPlayer

Inside Cinema

Underdogs

Caitlin Quinlan champions the sports films that give the longshots their time to shine

BBC IPlayer

The Cult of Keanu

James King salutes the rise and rise of Keanu Reeves, from delightful dude to 21st-century cult figure

BBC iPlayer

Uncanny Spaces

Wendy Ide surveys the strange spaces created when films don't follow the laws of physics

BBC iPlayer

Performance on the BBC

BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021

Follow all the drama from the biennial competition across the BBC

BBC MUSIC

"There are so many amazing and unexpected gay stories to be told"

Mark Gatiss on the collection of monologues he curated to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act

BBC Arts

Lights Up

BBC Arts has partnered with theatres across the country to produce an unprecedented season of plays.

Culture in Quarantine

Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

BBC Contains Strong Language 2021

Loyle Carner and Simon Armitage are among those performing at the poetry and spoken word festival in September

Contains Strong Language

Curtain-Up on Coventry

The city's streets are transformed into a giant stage to celebrate becoming UK City of Culture 2021

BBC iPLAYER

Coventry Moves Together

A soundscape of a city-wide orchestra for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

BBC SOUNDS

Elsewhere in Arts & Culture

Mecca in many mediums

Waqās Ahmed on representations of the holy cities of Islam

Art UK

The Central Office of Information at 75

Collaborating with The National Archives and IWM, the BFI showcase the eclectic range of work produced by the department

BFI at Home

Stories from Holburne Museum with Josie Long

Staff and volunteers share their favourite objects, personal picks and hidden gems from the Bath museum

Art Fund

New on BBC iPlayer

Proms 2021

Full listing of coverage on TV and BBC iPlayer from the world's greatest classical music festival

BBC Proms

Fake or Fortune?

Could the sculpture found in a garden, be the work of Henry Moore?

BBC IPlayer

Secrets of the Museum

Behind the scenes at the world-famous Victoria and Albert Museum in London

BBC iPlayer

New on BBC Sounds

The Film Programme

The latest releases, the hottest stars and the leading directors, plus news and insights from the film world

BBC SOUNDS

Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

BBC SOUNDS

The Cultural Frontline

The World Service show exploring the intersection of arts and news

BBC Sounds

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